> > When testing a manual build on ia64 we ran (on two different Gentoo machines) into
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/723268
> > https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-May/114028.html
> > 

> It has been proposed before [1] and it seems that it is not really the right
> fix. I can't not reproduce it with the gcc built with build-many-glibc.py,
> but I don't really expect it to that different from Gentoo.

Hmm, interesting. I don't know, but can test.

The build failure popped up immediately when I tried to make a build outside
our build system. Of course this was still using Gentoo's binutils etc.

The patch has been in Gentoo's glibc since July 2020, and I'm not aware of
any problems. Then again, the number of active ia64 users is probably small.

> I think it might be possible to code this in C and obtain its entry-point
> directly instead of the ODP for the syscall redirection (I recall I did
> something similar for ppc64).
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-May/114493.html


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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
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